Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 1:21:48 pm
Appeasement has never worked to stop the advance of militant Islam, so that must be why the Philippines are giving it another try: A Blog For All: Philippines Goes With Appeasement.

Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 9:29:21 am
The bombing earlier today in the Philippines that killed two people at the Philippine Congress was apparently a hit job against a Muslim Congressman who has been a foe of Abu Sayyaf. MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine congressman who had been targeted by Muslim militants was among two people killed ...

Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 8:02:26 am
One person was killed in a bombing directed at the Philippine Congress; no one is talking about it, but it’s highly likely this was an Abu Sayyaf attack. MANILA (Reuters) - A powerful explosion rocked the Philippine Congress on Tuesday night killing one person and injuring several others, including three ...

Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 7:50:39 am
Eight people dead in a shopping mall in Manila: Explosion at Philippines mall kills 8. MANILA, Philippines - A powerful explosion ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the heart of Manila’s financial district Friday, killing eight people, injuring scores and sending police and troops on the highest ...

Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 6:21:04 pm
YouTube is cracking down on copyright violations, but they’ve done absolutely nothing to stop the Islamist propaganda that’s everywhere on their web site. And now the Filipino Islamic terror gang Abu Sayyaf has apparently had success using YouTube to raise money, according to police in the Philippines. Manila - An al-Qaeda-linked ...

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 9:35:54 am
Thirteen Filipino troops and dozens of Islamic terrorists dead, in fierce fighting with Abu Sayyaf on the southern island of Basilan: Philippines clashes kill 13 soldiers, dozens of extremists. ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) - Thirteen troops and dozens of Muslim extremists were killed Saturday in clashes between government forces and Al-Qaeda-linked rebels ...

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 9:46:46 am
In the Philippines jihad, at least 57 people have been killed and scores injured, in fierce battles between troops and Abu Sayyaf terrorists. MANILA, Philippines — Clashes between troops and suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants have killed at least 57 people and wounded 42 others on volatile southern Jolo island this ...

Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 8:57:01 am
Fourteen dead at the hands of the Abu Sayyaf jihadis in the Philippines, some of them beheaded: Militants kill 14 Philippine marines, behead 10: military. BASILAN, Philippines (AFP) - Islamic militants killed 14 Philippine marines searching for a kidnapped Italian priest during a major gunbattle, and later beheaded 10 of them, ...

Sun, Jul 1, 2007 at 7:02:26 pm
Thai army detains 50 in raid on Muslim village. BANGKOK: Thai security forces raided a village in the rebellious Muslim south yesterday and detained 50 men with bomb-making material, an army spokesman said. The detainees were taken for questioning to an army camp in Narathiwat, one of three provinces where more than ...

Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 8:45:09 am
Simultaneous bus bombs in the Philippines: MANILA, Philippines - Bombs went off on buses just a few minutes apart in the southern Philippines on Friday, killing eight people and wounding at least 14 others, police said. All of the fatalities were on a bus that had just left the terminal in Bansalan, ...

Sat, May 26, 2007 at 8:31:09 am
The Religion of Peace™ has been busy. Four Muslims shot dead in Thailand’s restive south. NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) - Four Muslims have been killed by suspected Islamic rebels in separate shootings in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south, police said Saturday. A 77-year-old rubber tapper was gunned down in an ambush while he was riding a ...

Thu, May 17, 2007 at 8:58:04 pm
Blast in bus terminal in Philippine south, 13 hurt. MANILA, May 18 (Reuters) - Thirteen people were hurt when a powerful blast ripped through a crowded bus terminal in the southern Philippines on Friday, police said. The explosion occurred in a busy street in downtown Cotabato City, said Joel Goltiao, police chief ...

Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:21:30 pm
One place where the US has actually been winning hearts and minds (with the aid of a few Predator drones) is in the Philippines, where the militant Islamic group Abu Sayyaf is on the run: U.S. efforts bear fruit in Philippines. It must have greatly pained the Associated Press to report ...

Tue, May 8, 2007 at 3:26:12 pm
Philippines bomb kills four, army blames Islamists. MANILA (Reuters) - A bomb killed four people and wounded 29 when it tore through a billiard hall in the southern Philippines on Tuesday in an attack military officials blamed on an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group. The blast took place at a busy street corner ...

Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:10:18 am
US and Australian intelligence services have warned the Philippine government that a terrorist attack is imminent. But I’m not sure who the “terrorists” could be, since according to the BBC there are only “militants” in the area. The US and Australia have warned of an imminent terrorist attack in the Philippines, where ...

Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 9:49:20 am
They kidnap seven men, hack off their heads, and send the heads to the Philippine government in sacks—and Reuters still won’t call them “terrorists:” Muslim militants behead 7 captives in Philippines. OLO, Philippines (Reuters) - Muslim extremists decapitated seven men they were holding hostage on the southern Philippine island of Jolo ...

Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 4:26:07 pm
Newly released transcripts of hearings at Guantanamo Bay show that Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to a stunning range of terrorist plots, including September 11 and plans to assassinate former presidents Clinton and Carter: Pentagon Says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Admits to Responsibility for Sept. 11 Attacks. (Hat tip: ...

Fri, Mar 9, 2007 at 8:52:49 am
To protest against a Christian preacher who suggested that Muslims might have violent tendencies, Muslims in the Philippines called for him to be beheaded. Filipino Muslims display a banner, which reads ‘Behead Those Who Insult Islam,’ and t-shirts with a wanted sign during a rally Wednesday March 7, 2007, at a ...

Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:38:04 am
June Scorza Terpstra is a lecturer at Loyola University in Chicago; she hates the United States with a passion—and fears her military students: Can we really support these troops? (Hat tip: Killgore.) During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours ...

Fri, Feb 2, 2007 at 8:49:10 am
Showing once again the utter foolishness of making “truces” with Islamic supremacists: Muslim rebels lead Philippine jail break. Muslim insurgents using grenade launchers blasted their way into a prison in the southern Philippines early today and freed 49 inmates, including suspected bombers. Three guards were wounded in the pre-dawn attack on Kidapawan ...

Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 8:13:20 am
It’s always nice to start the day with news of a dead jihadi leader: Philippines says Abu Sayyaf leader killed in clash. MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Wednesday that troops had killed the top planner of the country’s most deadly Islamic militant group in a clash at a rebel ...

Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 9:15:50 am
Bombings kill 6, hurt 27 in Philippines. MANILA, Philippines - Three bombs within hours of each other rocked the southern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 27 others, officials said, amid warnings that Muslim militants may try to disrupt this weekend’s Asian regional summits. ... The first explosion ...

Fri, Dec 8, 2006 at 9:33:24 am
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit meeting on the Philippines resort island of Cebu has been canceled. Out of fear of the Religion of Peace™. CEBU, Philippines (AFP) - The Philippines has abruptly called off a high-profile summit of Asian leaders, blaming a looming tropical storm even as foreign ministry ...

Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 8:52:12 am
The Abu Sayyaf terrorist responsible for decapitating American hostage Guillermo Sobero in June 2001 has been captured in Mindanao. Military intelligence agents have arrested the Abu Sayyaf leader who allegedly decapitated American hostage Guillermo Sobero in June 2001, the military said Saturday. Major Eugene Batara, spokesperson of the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), ...

Thu, Nov 9, 2006 at 2:04:39 pm
New details have emerged about the horrific murders of three Indonesian Christian schoolgirls in October last year: Beheaded girls were Ramadan ‘trophies’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan “trophy” by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists, a ...